Life

Rainn Wilson on WorkLife with Adam Grant: The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness

via mako: A great read to start the Monday with.

This.

via Tim Ferriss podcast (shoot, can’t find the episode link now):

Great episode in general, but I especially loved the part in which Kornfield quotes from an Indian master named Atisha:

JB Pritzker’s recent commencement speech at Northwestern says a lot of beautiful things I wish I had said so succinctly.

Shawn Blanc: Two types of overwhelm …

“Valerie Kaur is a Sikh religious leader, civil rights lawyer, activist, damn near prophet of our times … A core message of her book is that a stranger is a part of myself that I do not yet know.” (emphasis mine)

Mic drop quote: “We will choose belonging at the expense of our values – our stated values – in many circumstances.”

Shawn Blanc: You have six areas of life